Barry County Missouri Obituary Reverend Green Plummer 
Source: Scrapbook bought at the estate sale of Vivian Roller by Ted W. Roller


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APOPLEXY FATAL TO REV. PLUMMER PIONEER  PASTER  ---------Stricken  While
Driving In Buggy On Olive Street and Falls To  Street  ---------LONG  IN
MINISTRY ---------Minister  Had  Remarked  On  His  Good  Health  Before
Leaving Home ---------Stricken with apoplexy as he was driving  West  on
Olive street neat the entrance to the Baker arcade. Rev. Green  Plummer,
who lived, seven miles east of the city on  Mill  street  road,  plunged
lifeless to the pavement this  morning  at  10:20  o'clock.  The  attack
apparently came without a seconds notice as eye witnesses say  the  only
move on the part of the man was the fall from the seat of the buggy.

Drs. Henry J. Ruyle and Robert F. Williams  hastened  to  that  stricken
man's side but their efforts to revive the patient  were  of  no  avail.
They said the minister was dead when the body struck the ground.

Alfred Sampey and Ben Lamb, police detectives, carried the body into the
rear of McMinn barber shop in the  arcade  where  Will.  C(?)  Lohmeyer,
coroner of Greene County, viewed it. The corpse was  later  taken(?)  to
the Paxson Undertakers ??? company morgue where it is being prepared for
burial.

At the time of his death Rev. Plummer was making his weekley  rounds  of
customers he furnished with butter. He was driving a  single  horse  and
the faithful animal stopped when he felt the grip on the lines released.


HAD BEEN IN GOOD HEALTH

Rev. Plummer was 67 years old and had never been troubles with  symptoms
of apoplexy. When he departed from his home this morning he remarked  to
his wife that he was in excellent health. The decedent was a pioneer  of
Greene County and  for  a  number  of  years  presided  over  the  Ozark
presbytery. Later he conducted revival meetings at the various  churches
in his territory. In the last two years the minister  had  confined  his
activities to the pulpit of the Danforth Cumberland Presbyterian church.
He served during the Civil war in the Union  army  and  participated  in
several engagements of importance.

The decedent was born in 1846 to Mr and Mrs. John Plummer, on  the  farm
where he lived at the time of his death. Mr. Plummer was reared  on  the
homestead and he received his early education at the county school  near
Turner Station. Following his admittance to the ministry, the young  man
turned his attention to revival work in the surrounding country. At  one
time he was pastor of as many as four churches, preaching  in  each  one
Sunday out of the month. At the age of about 25 he was he was married to
the daughter of a neighbor and to this union was born four children, one
of whom died after reaching his majority.

Rev.  Plummer  and  Rec.  John  T.  Bacon,  pastor  of  the   Cumberland
Presbyterian church of this city, were intimate friends. The Springfield
ministry was shocked this morning when he was notified of the  death  of
his friend by a reporter.

"I have known Mr. Plummer for a great many years" said Rev. Bacon today,
"and I can conscientiously say that I have never met a  nobler  man.  He
and I were thrown together repeatedly and I learned to look upon him  as
my closes friend."

Rev. Plummer is survived by the widow, three daughters and one son.  The
children are Mrs. Kate Ball, living in the  state  of  Washington;  Mrs.
Nellie Meredith, Reed Springs, Mo., Miss Artelia, living at  the  family
home and Floyd Plummer a prosperous farmer  in  California.  A  brother,
Henry Plummer lives in Reed Springs, Dr. T.G. Plummer, a dentist of this
city, is a nephew.

The relatives are this afternoon being notified of the sudden  death  of
Rev. Plummer

No arrangements have as yet been made for the funeral but it is probable
that interment will be in Danfort cemetery.



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